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This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several...::A Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for stationary storage can extend their usefulness for several years.

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[-] Nighed@sffa.community 22 points 11 months ago

I'm assuming that doing full charge/discharge cycles on them daily will put more wear on them than every day driving would?

But if your buying them at scrap value and the. Still selling them as scrap after a few more years I guess it works out.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

The way lithium batteries work, they wear out less if you only discharge and charge them slightly. So a battery that is charged to 60%, discharged to 40%, and repeated like that will keep most of its capacity even after years of prolonged use. On the other hand, charging a battery quickly, until it is full, or discharging it until it is nearly empty will reduce its capacity over time.

A Tesla Model 3 has a battery capacity of at least 50 kWh. Even if it has lost half of its capacity, the 20% capacity difference between 60% and 40% charge, or more realistically, the 50% difference between 75% and 25%, still represents 12.5 kWh of capacity. Suppose you had an array of 1,000 such batteries. That would represent 12.5 MWh of storage capacity, enough to power ten thousand homes (at 1.2 kW each) for an hour. Certainly nothing to sneeze at.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

This flies in the face of everything I thought I knew about charging my phone & laptop

[-] Jayemecee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yea, back in the day, when first phones and laptops were coming out, the tech was different, and was better to fully discharge/charge the battery. Nowadays it's the opposite, but the mith still survives

An easy analogy for batteries nowadays is to see them as an elastic completely relaxed at 50%. At 0% or 100% the elastic would be fully stretched. You want to avoid that to maximize its life

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